Pushing The Moon Away With Victorian Machinery
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 21:14
in Astronomy & Space
Pushing The Moon Away With Victorian Machinery This is a further article in my occasional series about coal, engines and energy, heat and thermodynamics. In this article I am going to show you how to push the Moon further away using some very basic machinery invented by 19th century scientists and engineers. Yes! Really! This Earth of ours is so huge in scale compared to our puny bodies. How could it be possible that by our ordinary actions we could alter the whole Earth climate system? Let me try to give you a perspective on that, at the scale of a classroom globe: read more